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2023 Financial Report
REVENUE Total Revenue: $2,178.62 This compares favorably with last year’s total of $1,365.86. Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Stripe revenue comes from Liberapay donations. PayPal comes from Liberapay, sales on Samsung’s Galaxy App Store, and from direct donations. Patreon revenue comes from Patreon donations. Merch Store revenue comes from the Merch Store. Amazon revenue comes…
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2023 Security and Privacy Canary
BACKDOORS During 2023, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. During 2023, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. PRIVACY During 2023, Stoutner received 0 secret requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to…
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Privacy Browser and Password Managers
From time to time I become involved in conversations regarding the integration of Privacy Browser with password managers. The purpose of this post is to place all of my thoughts on this subject in one place, as well as to explain why I consider it insecure to integrate a password manager into a web browser.…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.5
Privacy Browser PC 0.5 was released on 12 October 2023. The major feature of this release is the addition of bookmarks. There is an edit bookmarks dialog. An optional bookmarks toolbar can be displayed. With a fresh install of Privacy Browser PC 0.5, the bookmarks toolbar will be displayed below the URL toolbar by default.…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.4
Privacy Browser PC 0.4 was released on 13 June 2023. A setting was added to enable or disable spatial navigation, which is the ability to navigate between links and input fields using the arrow keys. There is some discussion about this feature on Fosstodon. Given that some people find this feature annoying, I decided to…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.3
Privacy Browser PC 0.3 was released on 8 May 2023. The changelog is now included in the Handbook. The current domain settings icon is now displayed on Gnome and Xfce. Changes were made so that Privacy Browser PC will build on Guix. This lays the groundwork to run Privacy Browser in a container, which is…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.2
Privacy Browser PC 0.2 was released on 17 April 2023. Work was done on this release to make sure Privacy Browser works well on GNOME. A crash was fixed that caused a segfault when downloading files on GNOME with local storage disabled. There are currently two file download mechanisms used by Privacy Browser. For downloads…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.1
Privacy Browser PC 0.1 was released on 11 March 2023. It is the culmination of a lot of work, but just the beginning what is needed to get Privacy Browser PC to the stage where it can create some serious browser competition on PCs. Users are encouraged to read the Handbook (press F1 inside the…
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Stoutner Will Never Sell Privacy Browser to a Scummy Company
I received the following email this morning: To the Founder of Privacy Browser, Greetings to Arizona! I’m Charlie, the founder of Appflip – A Broker for mobile apps that helps communications app owners sell their app for a maximum exit value. My team flagged Privacy Browser because of your 4,2 star rating and your 312…
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New Merch Store
Today we launched a new, self-hosted merch store. Previously we used a Teespring store (which never actually processed any orders). This is replaced by a locally-hosted WordPress instance running Woocommerce and connecting to a Printful catalog of products. There is an extensive post that describes which plugins are used and how they are configured for…
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